Cat Zavis
As the Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, I am working to build a spiritually progressives social change movement - integrating spirituality and activism to build a world based on a new bottom line of love and justice. To learn more about our work please go to: www.spiritualprogressives.org.
In addition, I am a Mediator and Trainer in Compassionate Communication. I, along with Rabbi Michael Lerner, provide trainings in communicating across differences (such as Israel/Palestine) and also on being a Spiritual Activist.
"Working with Rabbi Lerner and Cat Zavis around how to talk about Israel-Palestine was such a transformative experience and, frankly, such a relief. After weeks of deeply unproductive "conversations" (aka yelling/shaming matches) with people on all sides of the issue, I had given up on talking about it at all. Learning from Cat about empathic communication and getting a chance to role-play with one another gave me a whole new sense of how I might engage with people on the heart-level, even about this touchy-in-the-extreme subject. Rabbi Lerner brings a deep and deeply compassionate understanding to the narratives of both people's, underscoring their separate and intersecting traumas in a way that gives us permission to love the whole bunch of them, which we are going to need to do if we want to bring this catastrophic mess to an end. I promise you there is no better place to learn how to do this than with Michael and Cat. You will not be disappointed.”
Deb Kory, psychotherapist and activist
"Cat has a rare combination of an incisive intellect and a empathic understanding of others. Cat is also a gifted trainer who is highly responsive to participant needs. . . I attended an extraordinary full day training she gave on Nonviolent Communication. I wholeheartedly recommend Cat as a trainer, a Collaborative attorney, and as a mediator.” J Mark Weiss, Collaborative Divorce Attorney, Mediator and Trainer
Participation
Day 320 Sun 9/19 Ubiquity University & We, The World Tribute to the Change Agents of Freedom
